but he never really took advantage of it.
He gave his wife the house he was supposed to give
to his mistress. Jenny asks me if I think that is way romantic
& I know it’s a trick question but I can’t tell which way
because last night Jack and I got faded
on Red Bull & André cocktails back at the factory,
& we stayed up watching a documentary,
so instead, I tell Jenny that when the revolution started up, & folks
started smashing all the furniture
in the palace & ripping up the gardens, the King said
It is pleasant that this rage
is confined to inanimate objects, & I tell her I think that’s so hilarious,
Oh, hilarious, Jenny returns,
her voice serious as Madame Tussaud, who was also there, at the revolution,
according to the documentary,
& whose head was even shaved for execution before she was pardoned
last-minute so that she could pick
her dead friends’ faces up off the lawn & mold them into candles.
